Eric King Watts

This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society, felt as both terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitisation, and fantasies of reclaiming white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...